HEI Problems

Rather than burn up the starter motor spinning your engine, at this point you might remove the distributor and spin it by hand. Connect a spark tester directly to the coil HV lead. Once you get a spark that way, work your way back to final setup, checking spark at each step. I don't know if the wiring polarity shown for the pickup in post 17 will always be correct (i.e. male plug from distributor to wide terminal of HEI). Generally, people have to try both polarities when adding an HEI module.